As Kiwis, we’re passionate about our little slice of paradise but the impact we have on it is significant. Show your love for the moana by grabbing your whānau, friends and colleagues, and join us in Taranaki for the Hirepool Big Clean!

On Sunday 20th September from 9am, we’re running a massive public clean-up of the Taranaki coastline, meeting at East End Surf Life Saving Club – thanks to our amazing partner, Hirepool!

This is a great opportunity to spend time with your family while you connect with nature, your community, and to do your part in a hands-on solution to help look after the beautiful Taranaki Region!

Once the clean-up is done, Join us back at the East End Surf Life Saving Club for some music and kai to fuel you up after your efforts.

Everything will be provided including health and safety documents, equipment and refreshments.

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to our partner, Hirepool, for sponsoring this event.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Sam at sam@sustainablecoastlines.org

Another month, another awesome clean-up on Petone Beach!

Join us on Petone Beach from 2pm until 4.30pm on Sunday, April 26 to protect our beautiful coastlines, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council. We’ll meet at Honiana Te Puni Reserve, Petone Beach, near the Waterski Club — just look for our flags.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana.

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. There will be an opportunity to get involved on the day if you’re keen to experience citizen science — all ages welcome.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Sam at sam@sustainablecoastlines.org

Join us on Saturday 28 March — during EcoFest — for a community beach clean-up with two locations to choose from: Point Chevalier Beach and just along the coast at Eric Armishaw Park.

We encourage you to make use of the wonderful new cycleways in the area to make your way to the sites. Consider picking up any litter you see on your way here!

This event is also a showcase of the litter data collection work done by local schools on the connection between our waterways and the ocean, celebrating student contributions and sharing data-driven insights with families and the wider community. 

Made possible thanks to the Albert-Eden Local Board.

Site selection

Point Chevalier
We’ll be cleaning up the beach and Coyle Park. Mostly very easy, family-friendly terrain. This is also where our schools showcase will be held — make sure you check it out.

Eric Armishaw Park
There’s likely more litter to be found here, with options to venture into the mangroves, the park, or head along the walkway to clean up the beaches there. Make sure you make the quick trip up the road to Coyle Park afterwards for our community showcase — and treats!

Sustainable Coastlines and Conservation Volunteers NZ have partnered up to deliver a huge community clean-up day across Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai Lower Hutt, thanks to Hutt City Council. Join us for the inaugural Clean Up the Hutt event on Saturday, 13 December 2025!

Come along to be part of this massive community day, spanning the coastline as well as inland sites to stop the litter getting to the beach in the first place. We’ll provide everything you need to clean up, plus prizes, Phoenix Organics drinks, kai, and good vibes.

Everyone is welcome to this free, weekend event — families looking for a fun day out with the kids, individuals wanting to meet likeminded people, colleagues looking to use that volunteer day, or groups of mates keen to get their hands dirty. We’re all there for the same reason: to protect the places we love.

Register now at www.cleanupthehutt.org

Another month, another awesome clean-up on Petone Beach!

Join us at Honiana Te Puni Reserve from 12.30pm Saturday 22 November to protect our beautiful coastlines, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana. We’ll be out there from 12.30pm, but feel free to show up and leave when you like — it’s a Saturday after all!

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. There will be an opportunity to get involved on the day if you’re keen to experience citizen science — all ages welcome.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Sam at sam@sustainablecoastlines.org

Another month, another awesome clean-up on Petone Beach!

Join us at Honiana Te Puni Reserve from 10am Saturday 18 October to protect our beautiful coastlines, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana. We’ll be out there from 10am, but feel free to show up and leave when you like — it’s a Saturday after all!

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. There will be an opportunity to get involved on the day if you’re keen to experience citizen science — all ages welcome.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Helen at helen@sustainablecoastlines.org

Another month, another awesome clean-up on Petone Beach!

Join us at Honiana Te Puni Reserve from 1pm Saturday 30 August to protect our beautiful coastlines, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana. We’ll be out there from 1pm, but feel free to show up and leave when you like — it’s a Saturday after all!

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. If you’re keen to get involved in being a citizen scientist for a morning, let Helen know in advance (email helen@sustainablecoastlines.org), or make yourself known on the day.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Helen at helen@sustainablecoastlines.org

Keen to protect your beautiful coastline? Meet us at Honiana Te Puni Reserve, Petone Beach, 1.30pm on Saturday 2 August for an impactful beach clean-up, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council.

This month’s clean-up is in remembrance of our dear friend and colleague Ben Knight. Ben worked tirelessly in the Wellington region and around the motu to protect the ocean he loved, so whether you knew Ben or not, join us to continue his amazing mahi.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana. We’ll be out there from 1.30pm, but feel free to show up and leave when you like — it’s a Saturday after all!

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. If you’re keen to get involved in being a citizen scientist for a morning, let Sam know in advance (email sam@sustainablecoastlines.org), or make yourself known on the day.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Sam at sam@sustainablecoastlines.org

Event full!

We’ve had an epic response to this event, so registrations are now closed. If you’re interested in coming, please email sam@sustainablecoastlines.org and he’ll let you know if space opens up.

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Sustainable Coastlines invites you to an event to showcase, celebrate, and develop innovation that will reduce construction and demolition waste entering the ocean.

Alongside Stormwater 360, Hirepool, and Auckland Council, we welcome you to the Flagship Education Centre (which itself was made from 85% salvaged material) to learn about practical solutions for waste reduction and participate in developing a strategy to tackle the issue.

About the event

Construction and demolition waste makes up 40–50% of our waste to landfill. Inevitably, the sector also impacts the marine environment with waste and other pollutants. It’s a big problem, which means that effective solutions have the potential to drastically improve our environment.

This is now a priority for many municipal authorities and the government in distributing the Waste Minimisation Fund.

There are significant opportunities in collaborations that focus on reducing the creation of construction and demolition waste, diverting it from landfill, and preventing its escape into the environment.

We intend to kick off some of these discussions and collaborations with a showcase of our recent pilot project carried out in Flat Bush alongside Auckland Council and Stormwater 360.

This solution is one that can be readily implemented by the sector, and is backed up by data that not only shows the efficacy of the solution, but has potential for policy making, marketing, sustainability reporting, and influencing resource consent decisions.

We will also host an open-floor discussion to work towards real, practical solutions that can go to scale at pace.

Keen to protect your beautiful coastline and get involved in a Wellington beach clean-up? Come along to Honiana Te Puni Reserve at Petone Beach on Saturday 12 April for an impactful clean-up event, thanks to our friends at Hutt City Council.

This is a free, weekend event, so don’t be shy — grab your whānau and mates and give back to our beautiful moana. We’ll be out there from 9.30am, but feel free to show up and leave when you like — it’s a Saturday after all! After heading out to the beach for the clean-up, we’ll end with cold drinks thanks to Phoenix Organics.

Litter Intelligence survey

Alongside the clean-up we will also be conducting a Litter Intelligence survey, collecting litter data to inform action for a world without litter. If you’re keen to get involved in being a citizen scientist for a morning, let Sam know in advance (email sam@sustainablecoastlines.org), or make yourself known on the day.

Registrations

Please register below! This helps us with event planning, and allows us to contact you if there are any important event announcements or major changes. We will get in touch with you with further details on logistics for the day.

Huge thanks to Hutt City Council for making this clean-up happen.

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Sam at sam@sustainablecoastlines.org